'carl_spackler' about to get ORM-ified

...yup, it's time... no more mysql gem... Should have done this earlier, but no better time than the present to implement...

...this weekend...going to convert any [current 'carl_spackler'] database queries that are mysql-specific, into ActiveRecord calls. This way, someone is just one adapter change away from using their database, any db they want that ActiveRecord supports, with Spackler. ...but really, it will make things easy for me to write to my db using the ActiveRecord syntactical sugar. Laziness... a virtue!

ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection({
   :adapter => "sqlite",
   :dbfile => "db/mygolfdb.sqlite"
})

carl_spackler : Ruby to collect golf scores from web

Creating a new open source library hosted on Github, named 'carl_spackler'... it collects data on golf scores throughout the web, and produce a normalized form for each collection. Likely the output will be an array of Ostructs for starters.

Similar principle to OGWR, only for weekly tournament scores, not weekly golf rankings. This way anyone can collect both sets of data and use it as they so choose.

So lets say you want to grab all European Tour scores for the week, just dial up carl_spackler, and let it do your wet work for you.

Lots more to come on 'carl_spackler', 'OGWR', and others.

Carl Spackler, Greenskeeper, Bushwood CC

Open Source OGWR Scraper

Going to write some Ruby code to scrape the Official Golf World Ranking... going to release it as open source.